A presentation by Professor Lakshminarayan Ranganath regarding using whole-genome sequencing to understand phenotypic heterogeneity in the AKU patient registry, delivered at Sano Genetics' Demystifying Genomics for Patient Registries Event on 11th July 2019.
3. • 448 AA polypeptide
• MW 50,168
• 21 histidine and 23
tyrosine residues
4. Homogentisate
1,2 dioxygenase
Homogentisate
4-Maleylacetoacetate
Plasma HGA Urine HGA
Normal 6ug/l -
AKU 6mg/l 6g/24h
PLASMA HGA LEVELS IN AKU
ENZYME ACTIVITY IN AKU
Mutations lead to inactive HGD
Enzyme activity Tyrosine
umol/h/g liver g/day
metabolised
Normal 270 1600
AKU <0.05 -
Heterozygote 140 800
Bondy PK, Rosenberg LE.
Metabolic Control and Disease. WB
Saunders Co. 8th
Edition.
Alcaptonuria, 1974, pp 728-9.
5. ▪Located on Chromosome 3(q2)
▪55Kb long and 14 exons
▪Common mutations (P230S, V360G,
M368V)
9. Indel includes insertions, deletions and insertion-deletions.
Others includes nonsense and no-stop mutations
Summary of all Identified HGD variants (2016)
12. One-Stop annual service model
Monthly clinics
Large MDT
Baseline visits: 4 days
FU annual visits: 3 days
UK Dept of Health funded
Freely available nitisinone (Engl/Scot)
ITT Long term study model
Clarify Natural History
Efficacy and Safety
30. Nature is nowhere accustomed more
openly to display her secret mysteries
than in cases where she shows tracings of
her workings apart from the beaten paths;
nor is there any better way to advance the
proper practice of medicine than to give
our minds to the discovery of the usual
law of nature, by careful investigation of
cases of rarer forms of disease.
William Harvey
33. USA:
Portland: M Grompe, Ms N Paulk
NIH : W Wintrone, W Gahl
Spain:
Dr Fernandez-Canon (Leon)
Italy:
Annalisa Santucci, L Tinti
Poland: Histology
UK:(Clinical)
Royal Liverpool University Hospital:
Clin Chem:L Ranganath, A Milan, A Hughes, A
Davison, J Devine, J Usher,
NAC Coordination: H Washington, P Drane
Orthopaedics: J Davidson
Rhuematology:A Daroszewska
Cardiology: M Fisher
ENT: M McCormick
Ophthalmology: M Briggs
Radiology: A Dunn
Phyiotherapy: S Taylor, N Loftus
Dietetics: S Judd
Pain relief management: A Jones
Dermatology: L West, G Sharpe
Medical Photography: J Soden
Clinical Gait Analysis: GJ Barton, H Shepherd, S
King
Nuclear Medicine: S Vinjamuri
Nurses: E Luangrath, H Bygott, G Bretland
Patients (and surgeons) providing surgical
samples
Mrs B from Sleaford and other patients
R Gregory N Sireau, Lord Ward-Atherton
Sponsors:
NHS England Highly Specialised Services
European Union
National Lottery UK
University of Liverpool
Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Swedish Orphan
Research team in University of Liverpool:
JA Gallagher,
NP Rhodes
G Bou-Gharios,
J Jarvis,
E Lock,
H Sutherland,
P Wilson,
C Keenan,
J Dillon,
L Taylor,
B Norman,
J Hughes,
M Khedr
AM Taylor
The Research Team
AKU Society of the UK
N Sireau
OG Timmis
L Harrison,
C Scott
R Munro
E Whitley
S Roberts
L Powell
Y Ayoob